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- !Help File for MultiUtil.
-
- Copyright notice......
- ======================
-
- This RISC OS Application is copyright the author - Michael Coe. It maybe
- copied freely so long as all the files remain together and intact. Hence it
- is Freeware!!
-
- Life and the MultiUtil.
- =======================
-
- Right that is the boring part over and done with!! This little utility is
- designed primarily for A5000 users who want to be able to turn their ARM3
- cache on and off from the icon bar. It will be expanded gradually into an
- "everything in one icon" utility bringing together all our favourite
- utilities in one app. so our icon bars don't take 10 minutes to scroll from
- one side to the other!!
-
- Right, to toggle the ARM3 cache just click on the icon-bar icon, when the
- cache is on the bar across the icon is green and the 'button' is raised,
- when off the 'button is depressed and the line across the icon is red. Also
- displayed on the icon is the remaining RAM of your machine and the current
- time... There are various utilities to do this already, but this does them
- all in one!! Thanks to Chris Murray for his FreeRAM utility which has sat on
- my icon-bar for a good while, but it has now been displaced by my own
- utility!!
-
- To clear the system sprite area - so you can set it to 0K simply click on
- the 'SNew' menu option - what could be simpler than that??!!! To toggle the
- clock between 12 and 24 hour click on the '24 hour' option in the menu.
-
- Multi-Utility History.
- ======================
-
- Version 0.02 (10 May 1992)
- The first Distributed version.
-
- Version 0.03 (12 May 1992)
- Arrgh!! One very annoying bug discovered by myself only minutes after
- uploading it for the first time... It was also pointed out by Jp the
- following day. The save area was not correct for the screen when diverting
- output to the icon-bar sprite. Hence in some modes it disabled the use of
- double-height text for the wimp.. This has now been corrected. :-) Option to
- clear system sprite area now added.
-
- Version 0.04 (13 May 1992)
- Minor bug concerning colours of the icon-bar icon in 256-colour modes is
- now fixed. After painstakingly checking the program and realising that there
- was no mistake on my part... I realised that "Wimp_SetColour" doesn't work
- correctly in 256 colour modes. :-) So what I had to do was read the palette
- and then use ColourTrans to set it!!!! Strange, but it works now!! :-)
-
- Version 0.05 (15 May 1992)
- Jp didn't like the icon - that has now been changed to a 3D spanner... I
- hope that you like it now.... (Fusspot!!) Also the delay and screen redraw
- if no sprite memory was allocated on clicking the SNew has now been removed,
- along with the error. :-)
-
- Version 0.06 (17 May 1992)
- After Paul Clifford suggested that it had a 12/24 hr clock changey bit I
- decided it was indeed a good suggestion - so here it is.... The menu now
- stays open when clicked on with adjust, that was also pointed out by Paul...
- Thanks Paul...... :-)
-
- Thats all folks! Development is constantly underway! If you have any ideas
- or want a chat I can be contacted on :
-
- Arcade BBS : 081 654 2212 as user Mikec(#942)
- Archetype BBS : (0534) 54864 as user Bat(#150)
-
- or by snail mail on :
-
- Michael Coe,
- Ville Lorraine,
- Claremont Road,
- St. Saviour,
- Jersey JE2 7RT,
- Channel Islands.
-
- Hello to Piers, Jp, Mattew Israeljohn, who are all on Arcade.
- Hello also to the 2 Davids (Coleman and Dade), sysops of Arcade BBS.
- And to Charlie and Ali, sysops of Archetype BBS.
-
- Thanks to Jp for his constructive critisism, it has actually been most
- helpful!!! Ta muchly Jp!!
-
-